Abstract
In previous works we have studied spin- fields near four-dimensional Schwarzschild black holes. The techniques we developed in that case have now been extended here to show that it is possible to determine the potential of spin- fields near -dimensional black holes by exploiting the radial symmetry of the system. This removes the need to use the Newman-Penrose formalism, which is difficult to extend to -dimensional spacetimes. In this paper we will derive a general -dimensional gauge-invariant effective potential for spin- fields near black hole systems. We then use this potential to determine the quasinormal modes and absorption probabilities of spin- fields near a -dimensional Schwarzschild black hole.
- Received 23 May 2016
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.044052
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